Songwriting camp
A songwriting camp is a workshop event whereby professional songwriters are brought together at specified venue with the express purpose of writing songs for recording artists.
Background
Songwriting camps are typically set up by publishers with the main purpose of encouraging their writers to create new songs to pitch to artists, managers, and record label A&R. Camps are usually held at recording studios. The participants are assembled in ever changing combinations to produce as large a variety of songs as possible.
Benefits
Camps give songwriters the opportunity to write with a wide range of different people in a short period of time.[1] The benefit of working with other writers is that you are forced out of your comfort zone and as such it can challenge and develops your skills. The other writers could be from different cultural, musical and linguistic backgrounds. Publisher Vincent Degiorgio extols the benefits of international collaborations by saying:
It's essential for any writer to truly learn the way the world works musically. Those who do not speak English for example, or who don't speak an Asian dialect, shouldn't let that stop them. If the notes, chords and melodies start to flow and the energy is there, no language barrier will get in the way of what's coming. [2]
Writers can also make new contacts for future writes.
References
- ↑ "Q&A on songwriter camps with LEO CHANTZARAS, songwriter at BMG". HitQuarters. 1 August 2011. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
- ↑ "Local, foreign songwriters camp it up". japantimes. 28 January 2011. Retrieved 26 November 2012.